Molly Ivins - Best Quotes

As they say around the Texas Legislature if you can't drink their whiskey screw their women take their money and vote against 'em anyway you don't belong in office.

History

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Molly Ivins

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

Funny

And the funny thing is I've always been an optimist – it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

Molly Ivins

And the funny thing is I've always been an optimist – it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

Funny

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Molly Ivins

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Freedom

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water – which is known to have lithium in it – because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston surely the most lovable the most human and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

Molly Ivins

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water – which is known to have lithium in it – because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston surely the most lovable the most human and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

Freedom

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom 'cause you don't always win.

Molly Ivins

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom 'cause you don't always win.

Freedom

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice beloveds but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous ridicule the fraidy-cats rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Molly Ivins

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice beloveds but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous ridicule the fraidy-cats rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

Hot Quotes

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Molly Ivins

I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil. And that no one knows the truth.

Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States please pay attention.

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

You can't ignore politics no matter how much you'd like to.

As they say around the Texas Legislature if you can't drink their whiskey screw their women take their money and vote against 'em anyway you don't belong in office.

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

And the funny thing is I've always been an optimist – it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water – which is known to have lithium in it – because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston surely the most lovable the most human and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced.

The thing is this: You got to have fun while you're fightin' for freedom 'cause you don't always win.

So keep fightin' for freedom and justice beloveds but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous ridicule the fraidy-cats rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.